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Mountain Scholar is an open access repository service that collects, preserves, and provides access to digitized library collections and other scholarly and creative works from Colorado State University and the University Press of Colorado. It also serves as a dark archive for the Open Textbook Library.

 

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Recent Submissions

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Big box USA: the environmental impact of America's biggest retail stores
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Elmore, Bart, editor; Gross, Rachel S., editor; Sheu, Sherri, editor; University of Wyoming Press, publisher
Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life.--Provided by publisher.
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Mega-dams in world literature: literary responses to twentieth-century dam building
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Ziolkowski, Margaret, author; University of Wyoming Press, publisher
Mega-Dams in World Literature reveals the varied effects of large dams on people and their environments as expressed in literary works, focusing on the shifting attitudes toward large dams that emerged over the course of the twentieth century. Margaret Ziolkowski covers the enthusiasm for large-dam construction that took place during the mid-twentieth-century heyday of mega-dams, the increasing number of people displaced by dams, the troubling environmental effects they incur, and the types of destruction and protest to which they may be subject.--Provided by publisher.
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Environmental preservation and the Grey Cliffs conflict: negotiating common narratives, values, and ethos
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Pickering, Kristin D., author; Utah State University Press, publisher
A qualitative, ethnographic, observational case study approach presenting an analysis of the process of conflict negotiation between an Army Corps of Engineers Resource Manager and a community as they struggle to address a deteriorating, Corps-managed recreational lake area.--Provided by publisher.
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Engaging ambience: visual and multisensory methodologies and rhetorical theory
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) McNely, Brian, author; Utah State University Press, publisher
Offers an approach to operationalizing new materialist and ambient theories of rhetoricity that articulates theoretically sound methodologies and methods, a perspective that can extend new materialist theories of rhetoric.--Provided by publisher.
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Opening windows: embracing new perspectives and practices in natural resource social sciences
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Sherren, Kate, editor; Thondhlana, Gladman, editor; Jackson-Smith, Douglas, editor; Utah State University Press, publisher; Society and Natural Resource Press, publisher
Examines the breadth and relevance of social natural resources knowledge, explores emergent issues and new directions, and captures the increasing diversity of research with disciplinary foundations, approaches, geography, and the divergent interests and backgrounds of scholars.--Provided by publisher.